The Heart of The Matter

Palmer, Hilary

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“…It shows the necessity of extending the analysis of infrastructural meshworks beyond the limited scope of human agency. While the two catastrophic earthquakes (Butler and Rest, 2017; Ghale, 2015) in April and May had done relatively little damage to the building site, the de facto Indian blockade of Nepal later that year led to a severe shortage in fuel, concrete, and other building materials that lasted for about six months and resulted in another extended building freeze of Melamchi tunnel construction. Looking at the larger picture, however, I believe that the embargo was an indirect outcome of the earthquakes.…”

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Dreaming of pipes: Kathmandu’s long-delayed Melamchi Water Supply Project

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2018

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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For a generation, people in Kathmandu have been waiting for a large drinking water diversion project to relieve them of a severe water shortage. Recounting the history of the Melamchi Water Supply Project through interviews, project documentation, and media reports, this article argues that an analysis of unfinished infrastructure has to take into account the recalcitrance of more-than-human forms, in particular matter like water and rock, as well as institutions like government ministries and international donor agencies. In the case of Melamchi, the lack of control over both matter and such institutional actors delayed the completion of the project -as is the case with a number of large-scale hydropower projects in the country. Despite this obvious inability to complete infrastructures, elites have built the promise of a prosperous future for Nepal on its water resources and the export of electricity. By conceptualizing Melamchi as an infrastructural meshwork in Ingold's understanding and Nepal as an unfinished hydraulic state, I aim to contribute to the growing literature complicating Wittfogel's idea of the hydrosocial.

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Dreaming of pipes: Kathmandu’s long-delayed Melamchi Water Supply Project

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2018

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Integrating Music into Couple Therapy Theory and Practice

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2020

Clin Soc Work J

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Love in Action: An Integrative Approach to Last Chance Couple Therapy

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2019

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This article presents an integrative approach to the special challenges of therapy with couples on the brink of dissolution or divorce—who often describe this therapy as their “last chance.” In some, one partner is considering ending the relationship, and in others, both partners are considering ending it. Often, these couples have had prior dissatisfying experiences in couple therapy. Four types of last chance couples are described: high‐conflict couples; couples in which partners have differing goals for their lives or different timelines for reaching shared goals; couples in which one or both partners have acted in a manner that violates the values, expectations, emotional comfort, or safety of the other; and couples in which there has been a gradual loss of intimacy. The Therapeutic Palette, a multiperspectival, theoretically eclectic integrative approach, is enlisted as a general framework for selecting and sequencing use of particular theories and their associated practices, based on the three “primary colors” of couple therapy: time frame/focus, level of directiveness, and change entry point. An additional complementary framework, the creative relational movement approach, is proposed to provide an integrative frame encompassing both language‐based and action‐based practices, suggesting that meaning is held and expressed as much through interaction or “relational motion” as it is through language. Principles of change are described. Due to the couple's level of crisis and desire for immediate evidence of possible improvement, priority is given to action‐based interventions in early stages of therapy, by engaging couples in “experiments in possibility.” Typical action approaches are described. An extended vignette follows.

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The Heart of The Matter

Cited by 4 publications

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Dreaming of pipes: Kathmandu’s long-delayed Melamchi Water Supply Project

Dreaming of pipes: Kathmandu’s long-delayed Melamchi Water Supply Project

Integrating Music into Couple Therapy Theory and Practice

Love in Action: An Integrative Approach to Last Chance Couple Therapy

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